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Perez, also written as Pharez / Peretz ( Hebrew: פֶּרֶץ / פָּרֶץ, Modern Pereṣ / Pareṣ Tiberian Péreṣ / Pāreṣ ), was the son of Tamar and Judah, and the twin of Zerah, according to the Book of Genesis. [ 1][ 2] The twins were conceived after Tamar tricked her father-in-law Judah into having sexual intercourse with her by ...
Peretz Smolenskin, (1842–1885), a Russian Jewish novelist. as a surname : Amir Peretz (born 1952), former Defense Minister and Labour Party leader in Israel. Daniel Peretz (born 2000), FC Bayren Munich & the Israel national football team goalkeeper. Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915), modernist Yiddish language author and playwright.
The surname, written in Spanish orthography as Pérez, is a patronymic surname meaning "son of Pero or Pedro (Peter)". At the same time, the name Pedro derives from the latin name Petrus, [ 1] meaning "rock or stone".
Peretz wrote in both Hebrew and Yiddish.A writer of social criticism, sympathetic to the labor movement, Peretz wrote stories, folk tales and plays.Liptzin characterizes him as both a realist – "an optimist who believed in the inevitability of progress through enlightenment" – and a romanticist, who "delved into irrational layers of the soul and sought to set imaginations astir with ...
Shimon Peres (/ ʃ iː ˌ m oʊ n ˈ p ɛr ɛ s,-ɛ z / shee-MOHN PERR-ess, -ez; [1] [2] [3] Hebrew: שמעון פרס [ʃiˌmon ˈpeʁes] ⓘ; born Szymon Perski, Polish: [ˈʂɨmɔn ˈpɛrskʲi]; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician and statesman who served as the eighth prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the ninth president ...
Daniel Peretz (Hebrew: דניאל פרץ, / ˈ d ɑː ˈ n ɪ ɛ l ˈ p ɛ r ɛ / t̻͡s̪; born 10 July 2000) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Israel national team.
Peretz was born and raised in Tiberias, Israel, to a Sephardic Jewish family. His father Miguel was of Moroccan-Jewish origin and his mother was of Iraqi-Jewish origin. Peretz started singing as a poet in a synagogue in Tiberias at the age of 13 and began to compose songs. At the age of 18 Peretz was enlisted as a soldier to the Israel Defense ...
Peter (given name) Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek Πέτρος, Petros (an invented, masculine form of Greek petra, the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of Aramaic Kefa ("stone, rock"), the new name Jesus gave to apostle Simon Bar-Jona. [ 1] An Old English variant is Piers .